Word: par
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters turn for diplomacy, so the conversation was switched to Il Duce, apparently a safe subject with any Italian. Il Duce, according to Beccali and Cerati, has put athletics on a par with studies and gives medals to all athletes who win distinction abroad. Until recently, it seems, there wasn't much competition for runners in Italy, but Beccali has been running in competition since 1926. Both Beccali and Cerati are university students, the former specializing in architecture, the latter in commercial science...
...building, gymnasium and library. No Wellesley woman doubts that she will get them, but many have long wondered if some of the building money could not be better spent on faculty salaries. Unlike Smith, Vassar and Bryn Mawr, Wellesley does not claim that its faculty is on a par with those of first-rate men's colleges...
...Empire this was brave news, for Prince George, cheerful, popular and hand some, has all his life been rated physically below par. Organic indigestion drove him from the Royal Navy into the Foreign Office where he was made a third secretary. This proved too strenuous. Sympathetic Edward of Wales took him along on a tour of South America, did all the heavy speech-making himself. Prince George seemed to perk up and catch on. Senoritas praised his dancing, called him "more fascinating than the Prince of Wales." His digestion seemed to improve. He seemed to be able to drink...
...hotel at the time. When police held them both for violation of the Mann Act "Machine Gun Jack" married Louise Rolfe. He turned to "organizing union labor," developed an excellent game of golf, last autumn played the first seven holes of the Western Open Championship in one under par, only to have the police arrest him for vagrancy on the eighth tee. No such golfer as her husband, Mrs. Gebardi was eliminated in the first round of last week's tournament, three down on the 16th...
...33rd. sank a 15-ft. putt at the 34th to win 3 up. Walter Hagen scored a 68 in his first round against Densmore Shute, British Open champion in 1933. Shute won the match on the 15th green in the afternoon. He had played 98 holes in 28 under par by the time he was eliminated in the semi-finals by blond Craig Wood of New Jersey. Next day Wood played his onetime assistant, Paul Runyan, in the final of the Professional Golfers' Association tournament at Buffalo last week...